pilot light
Example Sentences
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One of the property’s residents told Pittsburgh ABC affiliate WTAE-TV that the victim was trying to turn on the pilot light on a furnace in the guest house when the building burst.
From Washington Times • Dec. 13, 2023
“The pilot light got ignited by ‘In Bruges.’”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2022
As it had hundreds of times before in hundreds of previous matches, her opponent’s nerve lit Williams’s pilot light.
From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2022
The resulting “Campbell Machine” added up to a “meaningless switch and a pilot light on the outside of the box” and “a circuit diagram with ink,” and a few other curlicues stapled here and there.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2018
However, he was alert, and he snapped open the spy hole, at the same time opening the tap that allowed a flow of naphtha past the pilot light in the buttress outside.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
